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Yves here. Take your hats off to my former Communist home. New York’s citizens beat Amazon’s effort to locate in Queens, which would quickly have rendered a remaining relatively low-rent, close proximity borough much less affordable. And now they are opposing a corporate Trojan horse masquerading as a pro-union measure. Guess its backers thought no one would read the small print. Or that deliveristas might be a force to be reckoned with, and win the support of the building workers union.. Oops.
A delivery worker takes a break in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, May 24, 2021. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
The fate of a state proposal that would allow some app-based gig workers to join a union is in doubt after key players, including a collective of food delivery workers, came out against the measure Tuesday.
Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
The fate of a state proposal that would allow some app-based gig workers to join a union is in doubt after key players, including a collective of food delivery workers, came out against the measure Tuesday.
Los Deliveristas Unidos a group of mainly immigrant food delivery couriers and service workers union 32BJ SEIU announced they oppose the effort, which would grant workers some bargaining power but shop short of reclassifying them as employees entitled to full labor rights.
The delivery group declared itself “opposed to any legislative proposal that is pre-negotiated without delivery workers’ input, and that directly impacts our industry, work conditions, and the well-being of our families,” in a statement released late Tuesday morning.
Claudia Irizarry Aponte/THE CITY
More than 2,000 food delivery workers biked from Times Square to Foley Square on Wednesday afternoon, briefly shutting down traffic on Broadway, to demand better wages and protections from the tech giants that run delivery app platforms.
Los Deliveristas Unidos had rallied before but this time, the workers who spoke were joined by a powerful new ally: the city’s largest union of service workers. The union executive who spoke from the stage on behalf of SEIU 32BJ vowed:
“We’re going to win together.”
The commitment from the 32BJ the same union instrumental in winning city fast food workers an unprecedented $15 minimum wage six years ago could be a game-changer for the Deliveristas.
Gov Cuomo announces two new mass COVID vaccination sites that will each administer 3,000 extra shots a day as restaurant workers complain they STILL can t get appointments ahead of Friday s indoor dining reopening
Cuomo made the announcement on the day the Mets home, Citi Field, joined Yankee Stadium in offering jabs to eligible New Yorkers
The two new vaccination sites will open in Brooklyn and Queens on February 24
New York hopes to vaccinate as many as 3,000 people a day at each site
But despite the apparent moves forward in the vaccination drive NYC restaurant workers say they still can t get appointments ahead of indoor dining reopening